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The art of scientific glassblowing

Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.

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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas

Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.

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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high

The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.

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  • Makers of British botany : a collection of biographies by living botanists / edited by F.W. Oliver.
  • An experiment; led to the "brown dog" vivisection dispute.
  • The medical directory.
  • Symbiosis, embroidery on fabric. 2015
  • Brighton College, Brighton. Wood engraving, 1849.
  • Jean Paul Marat. Coloured etching by J. L. Copia after J. L. David, [1793].
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